Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s fiscal year 2013 budget will increase spending by $329 million, or 1.6 percent over last year bringing the total budget adjustment to $20.73 billion. The additional spending will come from the projected $438.5 million surplus.

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Today, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy will deliver his annual State of the State Address to the Connecticut General Assembly. After one full year at the helm of the ship of state, observers far and wide will carefully consider his speech for its meaning and what it portends for the next year in the Nutmeg State. Only the real authors of the speech and its deliverer have advance knowledge of what it will say, but here’s a suggestion for what he might say:

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University of Connecticut students rallied outside the Student Union Monday afternoon to protest what they felt was an offensive skit produced by campus television station UCTV.

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(Updated 9 a.m.) Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced earlier this year that he would hold municipalities harmless and at the same time he would “bend” the Education Cost Sharing formula. Malloy declined to say exactly how he planned to do that Tuesday, but Wednesday morning his office released a statement saying that he plans to pump $50 million in new money into the formula, concentrating the largest share on the lowest-performing districts.

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As he prepares his second budget address, this one focused on education reform, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy took a moment Tuesday to put things into perspective.

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The American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors Laboratory Accreditation Board restored the state’s crime lab accreditation Tuesday, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced in a statement.

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Former state Sen. Sam Caligiuri said Sen. Andrew Roraback’s ability to work with lawmakers of all ideologies make him the strongest candidate for the 5th Congressional district and an answer to partisan gridlock in Congress.

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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who says he doesn’t pay much attention to polls, saw his approval numbers improve to 51 percent in a poll released Tuesday by the conservative Yankee Institute for Public Policy.

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A state subpoena for records from 10 schools districts—all named as plaintiffs in the landmark school funding lawsuit—couldn’t have come at a worse time, one school superintendent said Monday.

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Since announcing 2012 would be the year for education reform Gov. Dannel P. Malloy set his sights on the state’s lowest performing school districts. That’s where he wants to focus the state’s resources.

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